On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:30:49PM -0400, A. R. Vener wrote: > For some reason, the kernel is not using ttyS0 for its console. The kernel > boot messages go to the video screen and input is read from the keyboard. Does it have compiled in support for serial console? > Once the boot process reaches run level 3 however, the getty process on ttyS0 > works and I can login, assuming all goes well. That convince me that the your kernel image doesn't have support for serial console, but I can be wrong. > Since GRUB and getty both work with the ttyS0 serial port, there > is obviously nothing wrong with it per se. So I am left with the > conclusion that for some reason the kernel is refusing to use the ttyS0 port > as its console. Se above. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html